Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

-Bette Davis

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.

-Bette Davis

This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

-Bette Davis

She's the original good time that was had by all.
-- (on Marilyn Monroe)

I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
-- (Cabin in the Cotton, 1932)

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

"Until you're known in my profession as a monster, you're not a star."

...Bette Davis

"Old age is no place for sissies."

...Bette Davis

"If you want a thing well done, get a couple of old broads to do it."

...Bette Davis

"The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with."

...Bette Davis

"Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition."

...Bette Davis

"Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been."

...Elaine Stritch

"In my view, she's one of the all-time great movie stars and actresses. I thought she was a great beauty, too. I just loved her looks. She is still quite a character, very determined and strong, and she refuses to concede an inch. I suppose that is what has kept her alive."

...Lauren Bacall

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Biography from bettedavis.com


Often referred to as "The First Lady of the American Screen," Bette Davis created a new kind of screen heroine. She was a liberated woman in an industry dominated by men. She was known as an actress that could play a variety of difficult and powerful roles, and because of this she set a new standard for women on the big screen. Independent off-screen as well, her battles with studio bigwigs were legendary. With a career spanning six decades, few in the history of film rival her longevity and appeal.

Bette Davis was born Ruth Davis April 5, 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts. Just before her 10th birthday, Bette's father, Harlow, left the family. Although she had little money, her mother, Ruthie, sent Bette and her sister to boarding school. Upon graduating Cushing Academy, Bette enrolled in John Murray Anderson's Dramatic School. In 1929, she made her Broadway debut in Broken Dishes. She also landed a role in Solid South. In 1930, she moved to Hollywood to screen test for Universal.

Six small films later, Bette's contract with Universal was not renewed. She wanted to go back to Broadway, but a phone call from Warner Brothers quickly changed her mind. In 1932, she signed a seven-year contract with Warner Brothers. The film The Man Who Played God (1932) landed Bette on the path to stardom. She was a smash when she was lent out to RKO for the role of Mildred in Of Human Bondage (1934), her first critically acclaimed hit. Her role in Dangerous (1935) led to her nomination for a Best Actress Oscar. She became the first Warner Brothers actress to win the coveted award.

Despite her success, Warner Brothers continued to offer Bette unsatisfactory roles. In 1936, she challenged the studio by going to England to make pictures. Jack Warner sued her, and she was forced to honor her contract. Upon her return, however, Bette was offered a new contract and better roles. In 1939, Bette won her second Oscar for Jezebel (1938). She also received Oscar nominations the next five years in a row.

Although she earned a reputation for being difficult to work with, Bette set a new precedent for women. By 1942, she was the highest paid woman in America. Bette contributed to the war effort by helping to organize the Hollywood Canteen during World War II for soldiers passing through Los Angeles. Inspired by New York's Stage Door Canteen, Bette transformed a once-abandoned nightclub into an inspiring entertainment facility. "There are few accomplishments in my life that I am sincerely proud of. The Hollywood Canteen is one of them," Bette later commented. In 1980, she was awarded the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, the Defense Department's highest civilian award, for running the Hollywood Canteen.

Bette made a roaring comeback with her role as Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950), and she received her eighth Academy Award nomination. Her career was resuscitated again in 1962 with Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Soon after, Bette began her second career as a horror maven and continued to welcome new opportunities with television appearances. In 1987, Bette played a blind woman in The Whales of August, co-starring Lillian Gish.

Davis's personal life was as dramatic as her acting. She was married four times. She had a daughter, B.D., with her third husband, William Grant Sherry. She adopted two children, Margot and Michael, while married to her fourth husband, Gary Merrill.

With a career total of more than 100 films, Bette changed the way Hollywood looked at actresses. In 1977, she was the first woman to be honored with the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. She was also the first woman to be president of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences. At the age of 75, Bette had a mastectomy due to breast cancer. Nine days later, she suffered a stroke. Despite her failing health, she continued to act until her death. Bette passed away October 6, 1989 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

Michael Merrill, Bette's son, and Kathryn Sermak, Bette's personal assistant and friend, are now the executors of her estate. In her memory, they have created The Bette Davis Foundation, which provides financial assistance to promising young actors and actresses. Meryl Streep received the first Bette Davis Lifetime Achievement Award at Boston University in 1988.

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"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know."

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

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I've lost my faith in science.
Bette Davis

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
Bette Davis

At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
Bette Davis

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
Bette Davis

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
Bette Davis

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

I will never be below the title.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

Don't get up. And please stop acting as if I were the queen mother!

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

I am just too much.

Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and ofttimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.

Who gossips so much around here?

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

I work to stay alive.

I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be.

If my guests do not like it here, I suggest they accompany you to the nursery... where I am sure you will all feel more at home.

I must start wearing a watch. I never have you know.

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night!

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.

You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? "She did it the hard way."

You can't say I didn't fall for you.

Peformance number 1,000, if I play it that long, will take place in a well-padded booby-hatch.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.

Gary was a macho man, but none of my husbands was ever man enough to become Mr Bette Davis." (on Gary Merrill, her fourth husband)

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.

We're all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren't we honey?

Three years ago i was forty... forty! Four-oh! That slipped out. Now I suddenly feel as if I've taken all my clothes off.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

Beautiful

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I need this book..

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im going to bed!!! :heart: :)

Originally posted by Josh9125
im going to bed!!! :heart: :)

Sweet dreams:)

Originally posted by Crimson and Clover
Sweet dreams:)

:)

Anyway im back!

aww I love Bette in "WATCHER IN THE WOODS"!

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o i love her hair on this cover..

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